Michigan House of Representatives, District 4 Democratic Primary, 2012

Candidate

Vote %

Votes

Rose Mary Robinson

24.6%

1,993

Adam Hollier

20.5%

1,663

Carol Banks

15.7%

1,272

Mohammed Hassan

13.6%

1,100

Marcelus Brice

7.8%

632

Ernest Little

7%

567

Robert Zwolak

5.2%

422

Mervin White

1.7%

135

Jonathan Wright

1.5%

119

Beverly Tran

1.3%

106

Paris Canty

1.2%

95

Total Votes

8,104

Campaign themes

In a July 29 interview with the The Michigan Citizen, Banks cited public safety, preschool and young adult education and lack of assistance for senior citizens as the defining issues of her campaign.[3]

Public Safety

Banks wants to help establish a public safety task force. “You can’t get certain people to come to certain parts of the city,” she said in the interview.[3]

Education

"I am for increasing the amount of money we spend on education. I’m for increasing the school year. At a state level, we put more dollars into prisons than in education. We used to focus on the creative side of the child. Now we’re just talking about reading writing, arithmetic and engineering."[3]

Senior citizens

"Seniors live on fixed incomes and they don’t know a lot of the resources that are out there that they need. We need to create legislation on the state level to help them."[3]